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6th Internet World Congress for Biomedical Sciences |
Jesús García Domínguez(1), Teresa Cueto Guerreiro(2)
(1)Hospital Materno Infantil "10 de Octubre" - Ciudad de La Habana.. Cuba
(2)Facultad de Ciencias Mèdicas - Ciudad De La Habana . Cuba
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The transversal cohort of patients was offtained by clustering the 52825 children discharged from our mother and infant Teaching Hospital "10 de October" between 1986 and 1995.
A total of 950 newborns with high auditive risk were refereed to the regional Neurophisiology service located at Willian Soler Hospital in order to undergo the Brain Sten Auditive Evoked Potentials which exhibit a highly trustful efficacy as a screening tool for hearing loss diagnosis(10-15). All tests were performed before three months of corrected age.
At the same time, hospitals and health care área’s pediatricians, otorhinolaryngologists and family phisicians also transfered those infantns discharged from aur unit who were suspected to have hearing deficits. The type and magnitude of H. was taken into account on each patient.
To gathered the most complete information the neonatology service controls and newborns or infants clinical charts were reviewed, we visited their homes and questioned their parents about possible family deafness history.
The screening results, classification and severity of hearing loss were related to the neonatal and post neonatal period. A data base was created using the statiscal pachage Epi Info6 which was also used to process information(16). The frecuency distribution was obtained and percentage was used as summary measurement.
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